Invenergy is an American based multinational power generation development and operations company. The company develops, builds, owns and operates power generation and

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projects in

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and

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, including wind, solar, and natural gas power generation and energy storage facilities. It is s North America's largest privately held renewable power generation company. According to Invenergy, the company has developed 164 projects totaling 25,100 megawatts of capacity. These include 15,318 megawatts of wind over 101 projects, 3,874 megawatts of solar over 35 projects, 5,642 megawatts of natural gas over 12 projects and 300 megawatts of energy storage facilities capable of supplying 900 megawatt hours of electricity. These totals include projects in operation, under construction or contracted. Founded in 2001 after the sale of SkyGen Energy to Calpine Corporation by Michael Polsky, who today serves as Founder & CEO, the firm is based in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

. Invenergy also has North American offices in Denver, Portland, Toronto, and Mexico City. European activity is centered in

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. The company also has offices in Tokyo, Medellín, and San Salvador. In January 2013,

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ...

's public pension fund manager, the

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ; ) is an institutional investor that manages several public and parapublic pension plans and insurance programs in Quebec. CDPQ was founded in 1965 by an act of the National Assembly, under the go ...

, invested $500 million in the company's portfolio of operating wind farms. As of 2018, CDPQ has 52.4% economic ownership of Invenergy Renewables, while the company still retains managerial control.

The Blackstone Group Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. Blackstone's private equity business has been one of the largest investors in leveraged buyouts in the last three decades, while its real estate b ...

invested approximately $3 Billion for a minority stake in Invenergy in early 2022. A now bankrupt yieldco of

SunEdison SunEdison, Inc. (formerly MEMC Electronic Materials) is a renewable energy company headquartered in the U.S. In addition to developing, building, owning, and operating solar power plants and wind energy plants, it also manufactures high purity p ...

, TerraForm Power, agreed to acquire wind assets in 2015. In July 2017, Invenergy, in partnership with

GE Renewable Energy GE Renewable Energy is an American wind turbine manufacturer division of General Electric headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, Greater Paris, France focusing on production of energy from renewable sources. Its portfolio of products includes win ...

, announced plans to construct the largest wind farm in the United States, the Wind Catcher Energy Project. However, the project was scrapped in 2018 due to regulatory resistance from state agencies. Invenergy plans to start construction of a $200 million solar farm in

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in 2022."1,400-acre solar farm proposed in Indiana." Indianapolis Star, 19 April 2020.

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